Half of Gaza is hungry and 9 out of 10 people don’t eat enough: UN
- December 14, 2023
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half the population V Gaza is starving and 9 out of 10 people do not eat enough, condemned the Deputy Executive Director of the World Food Program UN
half the population V Gaza is starving and 9 out of 10 people do not eat enough, condemned the Deputy Executive Director of the World Food Program UN (WFP), Karl Skau.
At a press conference at UN headquarters in New York, Skau, who visited the Palestinian enclave over the weekend to see the situation on the ground with his own eyes, drew grim prospects for hundreds of thousands of people displaced by Israel’s ongoing attacks.
You see the fear, you see it in people’s eyes and you hear it when you talk to them: a lot of questions, a lot of confusion about what’s going to happen next.
UN shelters in southern Gaza are already overcrowdedYes
UN shelters in the south of the enclave are already overcrowded, so many people have fled. set up tents in its vicinity.
Likewise, others They escape with all their belongings on the roof of the car.not knowing where to go.
The situation is equally desperate for WFP workers, many of whom have had to leave their homes and flee several times since the war began and are now living in shelters, trying to distribute what little help they receive while their children ask if they will come. returned alive.
Skau explained that during the seven days of humanitarian truce the enclave experienced in late November, the agency was able to distribute wheat, oil, tuna, beans and other food items to approximately 250,000 people.
“During the seven-day pause, we demonstrated that we are able to carry out the assigned tasks and do it in an organized manner,” the Swedish diplomat said.
He repeated his call for a ceasefire in Gaza and said that, at a minimum, new checkpoints should be opened towards the strip outside Rafah (the only one not controlled by Israel). (EFE)
Source: Aristegui Noticias
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